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Europe has lost the energy war<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The livelihoods of millions have already been sacrificed<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n
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After a decade of financial austerity, is Europe now on the brink of a new age of energy austerity? The city of Hanover has recently introduced\u00a0strict energy-saving rules<\/a>\u00a0that include cutting off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls and gyms, banning mobile air conditioners, fan heaters or radiators, switching off public fountains, and stopping illuminating major buildings such as the town hall at night.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, several countries across Europe are considering\u00a0dimming<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0switching off public lights<\/a>, and even adopting\u00a0\u201cenergy curfews\u201d<\/a>, with early closures for businesses and public offices. And more drastic measures are under consideration \u2014\u00a0including gas rationing<\/a>\u00a0for energy-intensive industries such as steel and agriculture.<\/p>\n

These measures are part of an EU-wide\u00a0Gas Demand Reduction Plan<\/a>, ominously titled\u00a0Save Gas for a Safe Winter<\/em>, to reduce gas use in Europe by 15% until next spring. Among the proposals is a provision that officials in Brussels impose fines for non-compliance if they decide the crisis is escalating dangerously.<\/p>\n

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All of this comes amid growing fears that dwindling Russian gas supplies may plunge Europe into an energy crisis this winter. Overall, Russian gas exports to the EU are at about a third of last year\u2019s levels,\u00a0falling steadily since the invasion<\/a>\u00a0of Ukraine. While several European countries have been reducing their Russian gas imports, Russia itself\u00a0has been reducing gas flows to Europe<\/a>\u00a0through Nord Stream 1, the continent\u2019s biggest pipeline, citing mainly technical issues. Just the other day, citing equipment repair, Russia announced yet another reduction in the amount of natural gas flowing through Nord Stream 1, which is now\u00a0operating at only 20% capacity<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Europe has lost the energy war The livelihoods of millions have already been sacrificed After a decade of financial austerity, is Europe now on the brink of a new age of energy austerity? The city of Hanover has recently introduced\u00a0strict energy-saving rules\u00a0that include cutting off the hot water in public buildings, swimming pools, sports halls […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5],"tags":[279,281,284,3587,6613,554,694,33056,20539],"class_list":["post-63206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-geopolitics","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-gas-imports","tag-industry","tag-natural-gas","tag-russia","tag-thomas-fazi","tag-unherd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63207,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63206\/revisions\/63207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}